The Acid Left

We talk with Adam and Tish Turl from the Locust Review quarterly. We discuss the founding and purpose of Locust Review, the theory of Critical Irrealism, and their ever-growing installation in The Born Again Labor Museum. Adam and Tish are longtime friends of the acid left so this is a fun episode filled with laughs. We also speculate what a left wing response to Q might be, talk fan fiction, share fever dreams and tips for agitating at the workplace. Support The Acid Left https://www.patreon.com/acidleft https://www.instagram.com/theacidleft https://m.facebook.com/theacidleft Locust Review https://www.locustreview.com/ Call For Submissions!! https://www.locustreview.com/editorial/locust-7-missing-days-call-for-submissions Outro Music by Made in 1985 https://madein1985.bandcamp.com/

In the third in this series Mike Watson talks to Max Ryynänen asking if the Frankfurt School are too Bourgeois. Max is a tenured Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and theorist of Aesthetics, where he focuses on excluded and outsider practices. He published On the Philosophy of Central European Art (2020), in which he proposes Nobrow art production as a response to the dichotomy between High and Low brow and the way in which the former co-opts the latter. You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336 Follow us: insta: @The Acid Left twitter: @acid_left patreon.com/acidleft

In the fourth in this series Mike Watson talks to Matt McManus asking if Adorno's criticism of Existentialism in the 'Jargon of Authenticity' was fair. Matt McManus is a Professor of Law and Society at The University of Calgary. He is also the author of... The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), AND co author of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books AND A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights (Palgrave 2020). You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/memeing-mark-fisher Follow us: insta: @The Acid Left twitter: @acid_left patreon.com/acidleft

The Acid Left talk to Marshall Roderick, son of Rick Roderick. As well as following up our campaign to get Roderick republished, we ask what the man was like, what he would have made of Biden and Trump, Lefttube and much more ! You can read Max Roderick's text on Rick Roderick here: http://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/ Subscribe to the Acid Left's Patreon: patreon.com/acidfleft You can find more from the Acid Left here: twitter: @theacidleft insta: @theacidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft

In the second in this series Mike Watson talks to Douglas Kellner, author of several books on Critical Theory including Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, and American Nightmare Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism. Martin Jay is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. In September Springer publish Kellner's Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism. You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336 Follow us: insta: @The Acid Left twitter: @acid_left patreon.com/acidleft

In this new series Mike Watson talks to Martin Jay, Historian of philosophy and author of several books on the Frankfurt School including the Dialectical Imagination and the recent essay collection Splinters in your Eye. Martin Jay is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Books and Essays Discussed: Martin Jay, Splinters in You Eye -- https://www.versobooks.com/books/3183-splinters-in-your-eye Martin Jay, Trump, Scorsese and the Frankfurt School's theory of the Racket Society -- https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-scorsese-and-the-frankfurt-schools-theory-of-racket-society/ Mike Watson, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336

We talk to Graham Jones about his podcast Red Enlightenment hosted on Repeater Radio. Red Enlightenment is an 8 part series about science, socialism, and spirituality that draws influence from Spinoza and Marx to Michael Brooks and Mark Fisher while asking questions of metaphysics, ethics, and embodiment in order to move into a Materialist Spirituality. Contains remixes and samples from the following songs. Broke for Free- Lonely Organ Jose Konda- Golgotha Lobo Loco - Bioscope Dee Yan-Key - Go Down Moses, Moses Reprise Farad Farhangi - Animir Roman Havasi Marten Schellekens - The Little Match Girl Veena Kinhal - Haratanaya Sree Made in 1985- Imposter Syndrome Red Enlightenment https://www.repeater-radio.com/redenlightenment Shock Doctrine of the left https://politybooks.com/serieslanding/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509528547&subject_id=88 Graham's YouTube https://youtube.com/c/ASMRTheory Help Support The Acid Left https://www.patreon.com/acidleft IG https://www.instagram.com/theacidleft/?utm_medium=copy_link FB https://www.faceboom.com/theacidleft/

The Acid Left talk to artist and meme maker Teenage Stepdad about his new show on Means TV called Seizing the Memes, his working process, politics, art school and the media... and boaner jokes! Teenage Stepdad is the person behind the hugely popular insta meme account @teenagestepdad featuring among the best produced memes on the internet most of which perform satirical critiques of popular brands and advertising tropes as well as the culture industry in general. Check out Seizing the Memes on means.tv and Teenage Stepdad's website at teenagestepdad.com Subscribe to the Acid Left's Patreon: patreon.com/acidfleft You can find more from the Acid Left here: twitter: @theacidleft insta: @theacidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft

The Acid Left talk to Admin1 of the theory collective Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research and curated meme page @cu_media_funhouse.exe. We discuss the ongoing protest in Colombia against tax hikes, state violence, and the government's handling of the worsening health crisis. We also discuss the disturbing conspiracy theory put forward by the right wing government of "Molecular Revolution" that denies the citizens of Colombia's collective rage by arguing that a foreign communist cabal is trying to undermine the government along with the ideas of Toni Negri, Deleuze, and Guattari. Admin1 recommends the following Instagram accounts if you are looking for more information on the protest in Colombia: https://instagram.com/redcondorcollective?utm_medium=copy_link https://instagram.com/redcritica?utm_medium=copy_link https://instagram.com/desinformemonos.colombia?utm_medium=copy_link The video contains memes from The Acid Left Instagram account, cu_media_funhouse.exe, pages from Preliminary Assemblages by CUIR, and the hashtag #colombiaprotesta Contains remixes of the following songs: Audiobinger- The Upside Down Sudartha Corsus- Let Go of Time El Remolon- Cumbia Bichera Ketsa- Deep Math Sea Dragon- Cuadrados Y Puntos Acid Left IG https://instagram.com/theacidleft?utm_medium=copy_link Admin1 IG https://instagram.com/cu_media_funhouse.exe?utm_medium=copy_link Preliminary Assemblages by Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0zIJFvZVvYCXQegAAhVGleK6LKDAwWJ Help Support The Acid Left https://www.patreon.com/acidleft

Adam Ray Adkins talks to musician and YouTuber Artin Salimi on Mark Fisher, Marxism, Hip Hop, and Islamic Philosophy Sub to Artin Salimi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpxTegQA3NUq9scE-XQJzww Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft twitter: @acid_left

The Acid Left's Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins speak to Art House Politics, artist and 'content' creator about memes, art, content, breatdube, politics online and much more.

The Acid Left's Mike Watson speaks to Valentina Tanni, author of Memestetica, a book on meme culture and contemporary art and society, published in Italian by Nero Editions. https://www.neroeditions.com/product/memestetica/ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft

We speak to author Matt McManus and Tuomas Kuusniemi on Nordic and Western welfare models, 'dignity', agency, gaming and art! Matt McManus a Professor of Politics, from Canada, is a Professor of Politics at Whitman College in the USA and has written several books including The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), What Is Postmodern Conservatism? from Zero Books and A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights also from Palgrave. See recent text here on Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/ni...​ Tuomas Kuusniemi is a candidate for Vasemmisto, a left of center party in Finland in the upcoming municipal elections in Oulu, in northern Finland. He is involved in YouTubing and twitch streaming on board gaming channels, and in a podcast called Punatulkut which offers ‘left perspectives on the world'. Tuomas's channels: Punatulkut: https://www.youtube.com/punatulkut​ My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/muadmouse​ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft​ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/​ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft

We speak to author Ben Burgis on the importance of narratives from medicare for all, to Q Anon, to Vaush's so called 'Super Capitalism', and the Capitol protest. Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor at Georgia State University Perimeter College and the author of the best-selling "Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left." MAY 2019 He's a weekly contributor to Jacobin Magazine and hosts the YouTube channel Ben Burgis: Give them an argument He was co author of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist critique of Jordan Peterson that came out in April 2020 and 'Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left' out on April 30th this year. Bens says buy his books here if you are in the US: https://redemmas.org/books This podcast is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VmKiqdBh9ak Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft

Post election special with David Blacker, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware and author of 'What's Left of the World' AND 'The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame' and YouTuber Big Bread Brain, who is a Cultural theorist, multimedia artist, and writer. David Blacker: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/authors/david-blacker BigBreadBrainz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrhf3KPOvS4KPLcytvOAGiQ This podcast is now available on Soundcloud, where all future Acid Left podcasts will be found. Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

In this episode we are joined by John Duncan to discuss the anti-woke brigade in particular the UK actor turned right wing politician and bad singer Laurence Fox, whether it's possible to address one's own white privilege, celebrity politicians, human rights and neoliberalism, and the role of Scotland in the age of European Empire. John Duncan is studying a PhD at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. His thesis is on the usefulness of human rights as a tool to mobilise collective action to challenge the neoliberal state. He also has a YouTube channel at JohntheDuncan where he makes videos covering leftist political issues. Born in Scotland, Duncan lives in London but has spent most of the covid lockdown in Scotland.

Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins talk to Conrad Hamilton about Tankies, the online left, Marx, Speculative Realism, and consent. Hamilton is co author of the books Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Petserson and What is PostModern Conservatism. He recently finished writing his PhD thesis entitled Marx Contra Subjectivity under the supervision of Catherine Malabou at Paris VIII. You can find the Kapital Komrades facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/613646239225280 Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins host Brian Francis Culkin. Brian is a writer and film director. He has written over 10 books and directed three films. His books include “On Heroin,” “Postscript on Boxing,” and “The Ayahuasca Dialogues”. He lives and works in the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon where he is involved in plant based diet healing throughhis center, The Way of the Twelve Plants: https://www.12plants.org/ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

In this episode of The Acid Left podcast hosts Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins talk to artist, meme producer and twitch streamer Joshua Citarella about memes, Cardi B's WAP, Ben Shapiro, Doomer Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. You can read more about Joshua Citarella here: http://joshuacitarella.com/ He streams here: https://www.twitch.tv/joshuacitarella His insta is: @Joshua Citarella Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

Adam Ray Adkins and Mike Watson host Eliot Rosenstock, author of ''Zizek in the Clinic' for the first 'The Acid Left' Podcast. They speak about Zizek, LSD, Lacanian and Freudian analysis, Mark Fisher, mental health, and sobriety. Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins host Dr. James Cooke, Neuroscientist, writer & speaker, who focuses on consciousness, meditation, psychedelic states, science and spirituality. You can see more about Dr. James Cooke's work here: https://www.drjamescooke.com/ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

Mike Watson, Adam Ray Adkins and Terry Tapp Host Matt McManus, author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave). Matt is also co author of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, and Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books. Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft